“The ancients used to say: mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur — the world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.”

— Stanisław Lem , book Szempillantás

Starożytni mawiali: 'mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur'.
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"A Blink of an Eye", Okamgnienie (2000); the phrase "Mundus Vult Decipi" was used as a motto by the American satirist James Branch Cabell and is said to have originated with Petronius.

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Polish science fiction author 1921–2006

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